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Here is the saddest illegal-immigrant story of all.(Brief article)

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* Here is the saddest illegal-immigrant story of all. In one of those daunting yet pointless enterprises, an Englishman and an American, Karl Bushby and Dimitri Kieffer, took it into their heads to walk around the world, or as much of it as can be walked around. Starting from the southern tip of South America, they have spent the last seven and a half years walking up to Alaska, whence they crossed the frozen Bering Strait to Siberia, hoping to proceed thence to London. Here, however, ...

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